Woohoo!!! - we've passed and are now qualified PADI Open Water Scuba divers!!! First thing this morning again we we were taken directly ro the boat for our 18 metre dive! It went really well and didn't take u too long to get to the sea bed. Our instructor then made us do more skills which involved hovering, that we had to do in turns for 30 seconds each. Dave went first whilst Claire was left to play with a group of 4 fish that were very curious about her. ...

Our first sea dive! We had to get up at 6:30 AM to go and catch the boat, to do our first dive at Debbies beach Hon Mun. It was nice to be into the clean fresh sea and out of that horrible pool where we've probably caught some horrible disease. We got down to 12 metres with no problems really, unfortunatley the visibility was really bad, just 1-2 metres, so we didn't get to see too much. It was fun though and the second dive was similar but we saw 1 fish We...

All morning was taken up by theory again, learning more about the science involved in scuba, nitrogen, oxygen, how long you can stay at certain depths, how to kill a great white by stabbing them with your flippers and so on...Unfortunatley it's not just a case of head down, off you go, and then come back up! After theory we went back to change at the apartment for our swimming pool session, where we encountered the largest cockroach that we have seen yet on this...

First day of Scuba Class. In the morning we had to watch an instructional video which taught us some of the basics about diving, pressure, equipment, safety and other useful info. This was complemented by the bad comedic acting that could only be found on an American based instructional video! In the afternoon we finally got to taste some of the real stuff. Our instructor Chris (there was just us 2 in the group) took us to the pool and dished out his first piece...

Spoke to soon...grey clouds again! It's been the worst weather in 50-100 years in Vietnam this year. Went out to explore Nha Trang and Dave went flying down the curb nearly landing on his face - hilarious for Claire, the 2 Viatnamese women opposite, and the entire restaurant sat outside next to the curb. Dave didn't find it quite as funny. Had some lunch which included chicken curry served in a coconut. As the weather was a bit overcast we just wandered round t...